I use the Wii U GamePad and it works very well. With that said, I feel that there's no excuse for the lack of an option to use the Pro Controller. Although, I personally don't care, there are those who will want to use a different control scheme depending on the game.

With this game you have to use either the Wii U GamePad or the Wii Remote sideways. I'm VERY surprised that they removed the Nunchuck option(WTF), which was my choice for New Super Mario Bros Wii.

Forgot to mention in my previous post. In multiplayer you can NOT use your GamePad to control a character. You have to use the GamePad feature that allows you to create platforms to help the players, when playing multiplayer. Besides that, everyone has to use the Wii Remote sideways to play with a character.

Just giving you all a heads up in this and my previous post, so you won't be disappointed.